Combined stiffening and closing device for bags



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F. GoERTz A COMBINED STIFFENING AND CLOSING DEVIE FOR BAGS Filed Max.

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Patented Apr. l0, i923..

'U'Nirs starts FREDERICK GOERTZ, OF

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NEWARK, NEWl JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO AUGUST GOER'IZ & CO.,

A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY. f

COMBINED STIFFENINGiAND CLOSING DEVICE FOR BAGS.

Application filed March 14, 19218. Serial No. 222,283.

To all whom il? may concern.'

Be it known that I, FREDERICK Gonn'rz, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county kof Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Stifl'ening and Closing Devices for Bags; and I do hereby declare the following to be a'full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art tov which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. A v

This invention relates, generally, to improvements in bags; and, the present invention has reference, more particularly, to that class of bags, known in the art as knitting bags; y

The present invention, therefore, has for its principal object to provide a novel knitting bag of the general character hereinafter vset forth; and, furthermore, to provide a novel and simply constructed stiffening device comprising a pair of separable closing members, upon which the mouth-portions of lthe bag are shirred, said members acting as a means for positively closing the mo'uth of the bag, but at the same time being readily separated for opening the mouth of the bag, and the said members also serving to` provide a means for the attachment thereto of the ends of the strap or handle by means of which the bag is carried. f

Other objects of the invention not at this time more particularly enumerated will be clearly understood from the following detailed description of the present invention.

' With the various objects of the present invention in view, the said invention consists, primarily, in the novel knitting bag and closing device therefor, to lbe hereinafter more fully set forth; and, the invention consists, furthermore, in the novel arrangements and combinations of the several devices and parts, as wellas Vin the details of the construction of the said parts, all of which will be more fully described in the following 5U specification, and then nally embodied in the clausesof .the claims which are appended to and which form an essential part of the said specification.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a face view of a knitting bag made according to and embodying the principles of the present invention'- f Figure 2 is a view of the bag-closing and stiiiening device to be employedwith the bag, showing the two stiffening members in their locked relation when closing the mouth of the bag, but the bag being omitted from said view.

Figure 3 is a view of the same device, but showing the stilfening members thereof in the act of being separated when it is desired to open the mouth of the bag; and Figure 4 is a transverse vertical section of the device, said section being taken on line 4 4 in Figure 2, looking in the direction of the arrow `Figure 5 is a view, partly inplan and partly in horizontal section, `of a slightly modiiied form of closing and stiflening device for a knitting bag.

Similar characters of reference are employed in all of the said above described views, to indicate corresponding parts. y Referring now to the said drawings. the reference-character l indicates the body of a knitting bag, and 2 the shirred portions which surround the mouth of the bag,

The combined closingand stiifening, illus- `trated more particularly in Figures .2, 3 and` 4L of the drawings, is indicated in general by vthe reference-character 3, the said device comprising two rods or bars, as 4 and 5, which may be of metal', or any other suitable material, one ofsaid rods, as 5, being of greater length` than the rod ll. At or near itsend-portions, the rod or bar l has rigidly connected therewithbyy means of solder 6, or other suitable fastening mea-ns, rings T and 8, providing suitable receiving members -to which are suitably attachedy the respective end-portions l0, o-r other fastening members, of a carrying strap or handle 9. Suitably mounted upon therespective end-portions of the rod or bar 5,"are ornamental knobs or enlargements, as l1 vand l2, or other engaging and retaining means, which,

vof the carrying strap or handleS).

when the shirred portions 2 of the bag-body have been mounted upon the respective rods or bars, are adapted to be passed through the respective rings, loops, or the like oi: ,the rod or bar 4, as will be understood irom an inspection of Figure 3 of the drawings, and brought into holding or retaining engagement with the respective rings in the manner illustrated in Figures 1-and 2 ot the drawings. j

The said rods or bars lf and 5 are of such thickness and stiffness, that the rods when secured to the mouth of the bag-body, will Ilot bow outwardly, that a. rigid stiffening and closing device for the .mouth ot the bag will be provided, to keep the same closed, and at the same time permit the bag to be safely carried about by means of the strap or handle 9.

When it is desired to open the mouth of the bag, all that is necessary is to force the knob or enlargement 11 through the ring or loop 7 to bring the rods or bars into the relative positions illustrated inFigure 3 of the drawings, and then by moving the said rod or bar 5 in the direction oi the arrow y, the knob or enlargement 12 is withdrawn from the ring or loop 8, so that the mouth of the bag is brought into its fully opened relation to the body oi the bag.

In lieu of the combined stiiiening and closing means illustrated in said Figures 1 to 4; inclusive, I may use a modified device of the character represented in Figure 5 of the drawings.

This device comprises a rod or bar 13, upon the end-portions of which are suitably mounted suitably shaped knobs or enlargements, as 1 4 and 15, or other suitable holding or retaining means. Instead of the previously described single rod 5, provided with the rings 7 and 8, a tubular rod or member, as 16 may be employed, upon one end-portion is secured by means oi solder 17, or other fastening means, a ring or loop 18, to which is attached the one end-portion Movably disposed within a portion of the said tubular rod or member 16 is a short rod or bar 19 projecting from the open end-portion 20 of said rod or member 16, and having suitably secured upon the said projecting end of the rod or bar 19, by means of solder 21, or Otherwise, a ring or loop 22, 4for attachment thereto of the other end of the carrying-strap or handle 9. Suitably cons nected with the end-portion 23 of said rod or bar 19, is the end 25 of a coiled spring 2li, saidspring being disposed within the tubular rod or member 16, and having its other end 26 secured in a fixed portion within said rod or member 16 by means Vot a pin 27, or other suitable fastening 'means The engaging and retaining .relation `of these Several parts, and the-manner of separating the closed relation of the rods 13 and 16, to open the mouth of the bag, when arranged in the shirred portions of the bagbody, will be fully understood from an inspection of said Figure 5 of the drawings.

Of course I am :fully aware that changes maybe made in the general arrangements and combinations of the several devices and parts, as well as in the details 0In the construction of the said parts, and that the said combined stiffening and closing device may be otherwise attached to the mouth-portions of the bag-body, and may be used with bags other than knitting bags. Hence, I do not limit my present invention to the exact arrangements and combinations of the several devices and parts as described in the foregoing' specification, nor do I confine myself to the exact details oit the construction of the said parts as illustrated in lthe accompanying drawings.

I claim 1. A combined stifiening and closing device Jfor bags, comprising a pair of vclosing members for attachment thereto of the mouth-portions of the bag, loop-shaped devices rigidly connected in fixed relation with one of said closing members and extending at right angles therefrom, a carrier-strap or handle secured at its ends to said loopshaped devices, and retaining knobs connected with the other closing member adapted to enter said loop-shaped devices for separable retaining engagement therewith.

2. Acombined stiffening and closing device for bags, comprising a pair of closing members for attachment thereto of the mouth-portions of the bag, one of said members comprising a single rod provided at its ends with enlargements or knobs, and the other member comprising a tubular rod, and a bar `movably disposed within said tubular rod with an end ot said bar projecting from one end of said tubular rod, a loop-shaped device rigidly connected with the projecting end of said bar and extending at a right angle therefrom, a second loop-shaped device rigidly connected with the opposite endportion of said tubular rod and extending at a right angle therefrom, a carrier-strap or handle secured at its ends to said loopshaped devices, the enlargement or knobs of the said single end being adapted to enter said loop-shaped devices to be brought into separable retaining engagement with said loop-shaped devices.

3. A combined stifening and closing device for bags, comprising a pair of closing members for attachment thereto' of 'the mouth-portions of the bag, one of said members comprising a single rod provided at its ends with enlargements or knobs, and the other member comprising a tubular rod, and a bar movably disposed :withinf 'said ,tubular rod with an endof` saidb'ai" projectingy from one end of said tubular rod, a loop-shaped device rigidly connected With the projecting end of said bar and extending at a right angle therefrom, a second loop-shaped device rigidly connected With the opposite end-portion of said tubular rod and extending at a right angle therefrom,`

a carrier-strap or handle secured at its ends to said loop-shaped devices, the enlargements or knobs of the said single end being adapted to enter'said loop-shaped devices to be brought into separable retaining en gagement with said loop-shaped devices,

and a pull-spring within said tubular rod having one end secured Within said rod and 15 In testimony that I claim the invention 20 set forth above I have hereunto set my. hand this 5th day of March, 1918.

FREDERICK GOERTZ. Witnesses:

FREDK C. FRAENTZEL, FREDK H. W. FRAENTZEL. 

